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Clem Imhoff interviews Ambrose Gordon on June 30, 1976 in Beloit, Wisconsin. The first of two interviews with Imhoff, Gordon discusses includes his family background near Houston, Mississippi, the influence of the church in Mississippi, and their departure from Mississippi because of his father's voter registration activities. Gordon also speaks of his parents' training as teachers, housing in Beloit, and his father's work at Fairbanks-Morse. His father's political involvement and the organization of Emmanuel Baptist Church are also discussed.

This oral history is part of a series of tape-recorded interviews conducted in 1976 by Clem Imhoff for the Beloit Bicentennial Commission with black and white residents of Beloit, Wisconsin, concerning migration of blacks to the city from Kentucky and Mississippi after World War I and their lives before and after the move. Included in the interviews are references to employment and labor problems at Fairbanks-Morse, education, churches, the Women's Community Club, Beloit College, and the local chapter of the NAACP.

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